...Painted Autumn Blog Hop - Day 1

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new Painted Autumn StampTV Kit! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs! 

Today, we are featuring one of the stamp sets from the kit - Painted Autumn

 Featuring a 3-4 step floral image, together with a lineart image, you can create flowers with as much or as little depth as you choose.

Stamp one flower, stamp a bouquet - you choose!

Here is the entire kit (click to enlarge):

The Painted Autumn kit includes:

• Painted Autumn 6" x 8" stamp set
• Give Thanks 6" x 8" stamp set
• Give Thanks die set
• Give Thanks 6" x 6" patterned paper pack
• 24 sheets of card stock
• 1 binder sheet
• Plastic Storage Box
• Weeks of project videos at www.stamptv.com

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then don't forget to comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

My first card today uses just the lineart images of the two sizes of flower and one of the leaf/vine stamps. I stamped in memento onto the Ivory cardstock from the kit and then colored them in just like I would with any line art stamp. These beautiful stamps are drawn in a loose painterly style which lends itself really well to good ol' colouring in! I don't feel like it's necessary to be just so fussy as normal with these little flowers, it really ads to the overall look if you go just over the line in a few places, these suit me down to the ground! Card base is the lovely Sweetcorn cardstock from the kit.

For my second card today I have used two of the possible 4 stamps to create the flower. I used the full solid flower shape, which I stamped in Sweetcorn and Sweet Mango inks, both Gina K. Once those were dry I went in with the lineart stamp in black.

This set is very versatile in that you can stamp all 4 layers of each flower, or only one layer - like in my first card, or only two - like in this card, or just 3 - it's totally up to you.

Again I love the slightly offset look and so I didn't stress about perfection when lining these up - it's all about that loose painterly style! Here's a close up on one of those blooms, you can see how I didn't bother to clean my stamp in between stamping the yellow and orange solid shapes and I have a little blending of colours going on there, which I loved!

I took the 'So thankful' stamp and masked the 'thankful' work so that I could stamp 'so' all around the floral pattern. Then I masked the 'so' and stamped the word 'thankful' on my sentiment band.

The card base is the beautiful Ivory cardstock included in the pack, as was the lovely sweetcorn cardstock that I used on the sentiment panel.

just in case you need a hand lining up your stamps when you are layering these, Gina has prepared a couple of cheat sheets, here they are (click to make bigger or download your own larger PDF files from under the video presentation here on Stamp.TV):

When you are ready for some more inspiration, 
simply click on the links below for samples from the Cast & Crew:

Gina K
Beth Silaika
Cathy Tidwell
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet
Karen Hightower
Kendra Wietstock
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Susie Moore
Theresa Momber
Silke Ledlow

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thanks for popping in!